The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.
SAMUEL GOMPERSThe right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.
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One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man’s attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man’s reason can a movement succeed.
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Dayis devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.
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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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Let social busybodies and professional “public morals experts” in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.
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The right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.
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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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